UPC ROMANIA

'UPC Romania' is Romania's second-largest telecommunications company, a cable television network, internet service provider and telephone operator.
Founded in Cluj-Napoca as ''Astral Telecom S.A.'' in 1993, it is currently the owner of the second-largest cable network in Romania, behind RCS&RDS and is also one of the most important Romanian ISPs, having about 900,000 customers (2005) and generating 25% of the web traffic in Romania.
Astral was rebranded in 2003 by Brandient, when it launched a new marketing image as well as the motto ''Creat să evoluze'' (''Created to evolve'' in Romanian).
In 2005, Astral Telecom S.A. was bought for $420 million by UGC Europe and renamed UPC-Astral. At that time, UPC-Astral had 1,28 million customers for its TV cable service, 50,000 for the broadband (cable) Internet service, and 30,000 for the phone-over-TV-cable service. [1]